Good evening chaps!
Right, putting together a new build, as the title says, a budget of about £1000 or so.
So thus far, i have;
560ti - have this already.
Corsair TXM 850W Modular PSU - £114.04
8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz XMS3 Memory Kit CL9 1.65V (x 2) £57.99
Corsair 240GB Force 3 SSD - SATA-III 2.5" - Read 550MB/s Write 520MB/s 85K IOPS Fast Performance 3YR Warranty £134.99
Seagate 2TB BARRACUDA 3.5" SATA-III Hard Drive-7200RPM 64MB Cache £79.98
A few things however i'm not quite sure about however.
Antec Kuhler H2O 920 Liquid Cooling System - £71.88
Asus P8Z77-V Socket 1155 VGA DVI DisplayPort HDMI 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard £122.70
Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl Case - £89.81
Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz Socket 2011 10MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor - £242.45
All together - £913.84
Right, so first of all - the cpu.
This cpu is roughly the same price as the 3.5Ghz i7, but has a bigger cache, and is slightly faster, however i read something that it was partially locked? so you can overclock it a bit but not very much? can anyone who knows about the intel processors shed some light. Esentially, i'm paying a lot of money already, so want to get the best quad core i7 i can as there's not much difference between them price wise.
Motherboard - Quite expensive, can i get a cheaper one that has a good sound card and supports my cpu and graphics card etc etc.
Will the watercooling be sufficient to cool an overclocked i7 processor?
As for the case, i have no idea what case to get, no idea how big all this stuff is and what size case i need.
Any information you guys have with regards to this would be splendid.
Thank you very much!
I don't mind going over my budget a little bit but i can't go much higher in this without skipping meals for the next few weeks, but that's not off the table yet.
Right, putting together a new build, as the title says, a budget of about £1000 or so.
So thus far, i have;
560ti - have this already.
Corsair TXM 850W Modular PSU - £114.04
8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz XMS3 Memory Kit CL9 1.65V (x 2) £57.99
Corsair 240GB Force 3 SSD - SATA-III 2.5" - Read 550MB/s Write 520MB/s 85K IOPS Fast Performance 3YR Warranty £134.99
Seagate 2TB BARRACUDA 3.5" SATA-III Hard Drive-7200RPM 64MB Cache £79.98
A few things however i'm not quite sure about however.
Antec Kuhler H2O 920 Liquid Cooling System - £71.88
Asus P8Z77-V Socket 1155 VGA DVI DisplayPort HDMI 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard £122.70
Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl Case - £89.81
Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz Socket 2011 10MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor - £242.45
All together - £913.84
Right, so first of all - the cpu.
This cpu is roughly the same price as the 3.5Ghz i7, but has a bigger cache, and is slightly faster, however i read something that it was partially locked? so you can overclock it a bit but not very much? can anyone who knows about the intel processors shed some light. Esentially, i'm paying a lot of money already, so want to get the best quad core i7 i can as there's not much difference between them price wise.
Motherboard - Quite expensive, can i get a cheaper one that has a good sound card and supports my cpu and graphics card etc etc.
Will the watercooling be sufficient to cool an overclocked i7 processor?
As for the case, i have no idea what case to get, no idea how big all this stuff is and what size case i need.
Any information you guys have with regards to this would be splendid.
Thank you very much!
I don't mind going over my budget a little bit but i can't go much higher in this without skipping meals for the next few weeks, but that's not off the table yet.
?
